Um before we start, I don't own the x-men I just own…. well I'll tell ya later!

It was a cool summer day. The wind blew a forgiving breeze that cooled the kids, and kept them from getting over heated. Usually the students would study year round but the professor wanted to give the kids normal breaks. Rogue was grateful. She hated class, but then again, she hated having nothing to do. She stayed under a tree in the front lawn. She waited for Logan to come back. The girls were warring her down with their endless guy talk.

Rogue, or Marie, was a 17-year-old girl, she was a mutant with a power that not only blessed her, but also seemed to curse her more than anything else. She would absorb any body or any thing with a pulse if she touched its skin. If she came into contact with them, their memories, their thoughts, their ideas would be hers, if you were a mutant, she would get your power as well, if she held on too long…. She'd absorb you completely. That though scared her so she covered up completely.

She wore a black ¾ sleeve shirt, with long blue jean pants the flared out after the knee. She had her tennis shoes tied tight as tight as her gloves. So tight she thought they were cutting off the circulation. Around her neck were Logan's dog tags as well as a necklace that was given' to her by a friend, a friend she had before she left home. She played with a strip of white hair as she thought about that morning.

-Flashback-

"Logan?" Rogue asked "Where are you going?"

"I'm leaving again kid" he answered solemnly

"Where to?"

"Don' know"

"When you plan on commin' back you big ouf?"

Logan couldn't help but laugh

"No more then two months, I'll be back in time for you to have a few more weeks of summer break."

Rogue looked down at her feet, he was going to leave again. And she knew she couldn't talk him out of it. She gave up on that a long time ago.

"Here." Rogue looked up at him to see that he had his gloved hand extended out toward her "Take it!" It was his dog tags, a promise that he was going to come back. She smiled and hugged him. As he was walking out the door she stopped him.

"Logan."

"Yeah."

"Take these!" she handed him keys "there to Scott's bike, he gets tired of fixin' the key hole!"

"Thank kid! But how?"

"Ah made a copy in case you wanted to take it again!"

-End flashback-

She laughed to her self and shook her head. Logan loved to steal Scott's things. Speaking of Scott, he left earlier today, "somthin' bout a new student" she said to her self as she got up and brushed her self off and walked in side the mansion few kids were there, most went on vacation, and others were gone "out" all the time. She hated not having any one that she could just talk to, and have an intelligent conversation with, without having to do something with boys

Rogue went into the kitchen and grabbed an apple out of the fruit bowl, sat on the counter and started to take a bit when she saw Cyclops come in the front door. He was talking to someone she'd never seen before.

"Um…. All right…" he looked nervous "If I could find someone…."

Rogue jumped off the counter and walked over the them

"Scott?" she inquired

"Ah, yes, Rogue, can you show this young man his room?"

"All right, wait, where you goin?"

"Um…. To Miur Island…something personal has come up and I can't help him!"

"Oh…Okay! See ya Scott!" she said as he walked out the door.

Rogue looked at the boy, he wore a brown leather jacket and a tight black shirt, and blue jeans that had the shit torn out of them. On his feet were tennis shoes much like hers, and he also wore gloves, the fingers on the gloves were cut so the only the middle and ring finger were fully covered. His hair was short, but long enough to run you finger thought, it covered his eyes, which had sunglasses on them and he was built! Not a sign of fat on his body, just perfect muscle. From an over all view, he looked trashy, but it worked for him.

"Um…let mah see you paper" the man handed it to her "Um…it looks like you be in a corner room, luck you"

She looked back up at him from the paper to see him smile and she blushed.

"Well it look like ah've met a fellow southerner!" he said with a perfect smile and Cajun accent "And where an angel such as yo' self be from?"

Rogue blushed even more

"Mi-Mississippi, Caldecott county " She said shyly "And Ya'll be from?"

"The one and only New Orleans!"

"Um…Ah'll be show'n ya'll to your room. Oh! And I forgot to ask, what's your name?"

He smiled and took her hand and kissed her gloved knuckles "Day call meh, Gambit chere, but fo you? It be Remy, Ahn, what do da' ot'er (other) angels call you Chere?"

"Rogue." She smiled; this was going to be an interesting week with a new student hanging around.

Ok, I know that was short, but it' didn't take that long to read! Okay, but I think they'll all be about the same length!